Console display options
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I have an old PC running a couple of VMs and it has an old 19" display and keyboard for emergencies. It's text only (80x25, maybe), no Wayland. What cool thing can I put on the display? Are there any text based graphs or charts?
Try the btop, it's fancy
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For basic stats, probably just htop. But you can set any of those status viewers as the shell of a custom user, and configure it to login into that user automatically for the physical tty1 (so the display)
You could step up a level and use btop! More numbers!
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asciiquarium?
I love asciiquarium
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I have an old PC running a couple of VMs and it has an old 19" display and keyboard for emergencies. It's text only (80x25, maybe), no Wayland. What cool thing can I put on the display? Are there any text based graphs or charts?
Something cool & useful? htop. Something cool but useless? cmatrix
There are also various text-based screensavers like the windows pipes and such, but I don't have those project names handy.
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Try the btop, it's fancy
Of the tops out there, btop is my favorite followed by glances. They are all useful, I just like the way btop presents the data
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I have an old PC running a couple of VMs and it has an old 19" display and keyboard for emergencies. It's text only (80x25, maybe), no Wayland. What cool thing can I put on the display? Are there any text based graphs or charts?
All of these suggestions, and split them up in tmux panes. ntop and glances are neat too!
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All of these suggestions, and split them up in tmux panes. ntop and glances are neat too!
This is an excellent idea!
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Something cool & useful? htop. Something cool but useless? cmatrix
There are also various text-based screensavers like the windows pipes and such, but I don't have those project names handy.
I had plain old
topand it was boring. I did not know how many alternatives there were.I'll also have to check out cmatrix.
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Maybe htop? It's pretty configurable and has decent bars for various resources.
Also if your reason for choosing pure TUI is just resource usage (and not the aesthetics of it / cool feeling / whatever else), then you could maybe look into running something like Sway or Xorg+i3 - those are very lightweight, well suited for single window usage, and open up a lot of possibilities for lightweight GUI apps.
It's a VGA connection and, yes, my primary concern is resource usage. I'm running 2-3 VMs on it so that I can easily migrate the VM around.
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I had plain old
topand it was boring. I did not know how many alternatives there were.I'll also have to check out cmatrix.
Use
btop, it's even better -
Use
btop, it's even betterMy uni lecturer me mentioned btop to me. Haven't looked back
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Something cool & useful? htop. Something cool but useless? cmatrix
There are also various text-based screensavers like the windows pipes and such, but I don't have those project names handy.
windows pipes
Wow! Just had a flashback to the screensaver era. If you're ever bored, there is some neat history behind the Flying Toasters screensaver.
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windows pipes
Wow! Just had a flashback to the screensaver era. If you're ever bored, there is some neat history behind the Flying Toasters screensaver.
AfterDark was awesome
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My uni lecturer me mentioned btop to me. Haven't looked back
I discovered it a couple weeks ago. Love it.
